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'cidce) Curassows ( Crax) Mituas (Nothocrax) Pauxi Curassow (Pauxis} Der- 

 bian Guan (Orcophasis) Guans (Penelope, etc.) The Hoatzin ( Family Opisthoco- 

 midte)The Rail Tribe (Order Fulicarice) True Rails (Family Rallidce, Genus 

 Rallus) Weka Rails (Ocydromus) Corncrake and Carolina Rails (Crex) Pygmy 

 Rails (Corethrura) Water Hens (Tribonyx, Gallinula, etc.) Gallinules and 

 Coots (Porphyrio and Fulica) The Finfeet (Family Heliornithidce), . . 2160 



CHAPTER XVIII. THE BUSTARDS, THICKNEES, AND CRANES, Order Alectorides. 



Characteristics of the Group The Bustard Tribe (Family Otididce) True Bustards 

 (Otis) Little Bustard Long-Beaked Bustards (Eupodotis) Ruffed Bustards 

 (Hubara) Florican (Sypheotides) The Thicknees (Family CEdicnemidce) The 

 Seriemas (Family Cariamidce) The Trumpeters (Family Psophiidce) The Cranes 

 (Family Gruidce) True Cranes (Grus) Common Crane Sarus Crane White 

 Crane Other Species Crowned Cranes (Balearica) The.Courlans (Family 

 Aramidce) The Kagus (Family Rhinochcetidce) The Sun Bittern (Family 

 Eitrypygidce), .......... 2219 



CHAPTER XIX. THE PLOVERS, SANDPIPERS, SNIPE, JACANAS, AND GULLS, 

 Orders Limicolce and Gavice. 



Characteristics of the Two Groups Distinctions of the Plover Tribe Pratincoles and 

 Coursers (Family Cursoriidce) Pratincoles (Glareola) Cream-Colored Courser 

 (Cursorius) Black-Backed Courser (Pluvianus) The Plover Tribe (Family 

 Charadriida) Ringed Plover (sEgialitis) Sand Plovers (^gialophilus) True 

 Plovers and Dotterels (Charadrius) Lapwings Four-Toed Lapwings ( Vanellus) 



-Three-Toed Lapwings (Hoflopterus) Wattled Lapwings (Lobivanellus) Stilts 

 (Himantopus) Avocets (Recurvirostra) Oyster Catchers (H&matopus') Curlews 

 and Whimbrels (Numenius) Phalaropes (Phalaropus) Hard-Billed Sandpipers 

 and Ruffs (Tetanus) Godwits (Limosa) Snipe-Beaked Sandpipers (Ereunetes) 



-Turnstones (Strepsilas) Cleft- Footed Sandpipers ( Tringa) Sanderling (Cali- 

 dris) Painted Snipe (Rhynchaea) Woodcock and Snipe (Scolopax) Jacanasand 

 Water Pheasants (Family Parridce) Sheath Bills (Family Chionididce) Seed 

 Snipe (Family Thinocoridce) The Gull Tribe (Order Gavice) Terns, Skimmers, 

 and Gulls (Family Laridce) Terns (Hydrochelidon and Sterna) Noddies (Anous) 



Skimmers (Rhynchops) Fork-Tailed Gulls (Xema) Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia) 

 Typical Gulls (Larus) Kittiwakes (Rissa') Ivory Gull (Pagopliila) The Skuas 

 (Family Stercorariidce), ......... 2239 



CHAPTER XX. THE TUBE-NOSED BIRDS, DIVING BIRDS, AND PENGUINS, 

 Orders Tubinares, Pvgopodes, and Impennes. 



Characteristics of the Tube-Nosed Birds The Albatrosses (Family Diomedeidce) The 

 Petrels (Family Procellariidce) Giant Petrel (Ossifraga) Fulmar Petrel (Ful- 

 marus) Allied Genera Shearwaters (Puffinus) Capped Petrel and Bulwer's 

 Petrel (CEstrelata and Bul-vueria) Cape Petrel (Daption) Dove Petrels (Prion} 



Storm Petrels (Procellaria) Allied Petrels Wilson's Petrel (Oceanites) The 

 Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides) The Diving Birds (Order Pygopode.s)^^ Auks 

 (Family Alcidce) True Auks (Alca) Great Auk Razorbill Guillemots ( Uria) 



Short-Billed Guillemots (BracJiyrhamphus) Little Auk (Mergulus) Pacific 

 Pygmy Auks (Simorhynckus, etc.) Puffins (Fratercula) The Divers (Family 

 Colymbidcz) The Grebes (Family Podicipedidce) Typical Grebes (Podicipes) 

 Thick-Billed Grebes (Podilymbus) The Penguins (Order Impennes) The Genera 



and Habits of the Spheniscidce, ........ 2289 



